2024 Youth Summer Leadership Camp

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This year's theme for our NYGEAR UP YSL camp was "Imagine, Inspire, and Innovate!"   

NYGEAR UP camps take fun seriously. This year's YSL camp emphasized growth and building activity-based skills. Our summer program offered educational and enrichment opportunities for our rising ninth graders. From exploring careers to discovering their creative abilities in designing apps with MAD-Learn, students tried out new skill sets. They even had the opportunity to practice some fun activities at Ithaca's circus school, Circus Culture.   Our camp is a place where student's feel like they are part of something big and worth celebrating together.  

Rising ninth graders enjoyed a college campus experience while living on the picturesque Ithaca college campus for five days. 

 Activities for our scholars involved two college campus tours, an outdoor hike to Taughannock Falls State Park, an evening with Circus Culture, a SEL workshop with the CUNY Creative Arts team, four opportunities to explore careers with the faculty at Ithaca college, and a grand finale with a "Shark Tank" styled competition for students who were taught how to develop their own Apps with “Mad Learn”.

 How did the Summer Academy experience make you feel?  

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"Excited!"
"Curious."
"Really happy and like a kid again!"
"Welcomed and loved!"
"Very engaged."
"Excited about my future."
"Excited to try new things, made me feel at home and part of a family."
"Happy because there was so much positive energy!"
"Successful, more confident."
"It made me feel safe to be more me."
"I felt so happy every day and was so excited to go to each activity."
"Open to new ideas and new friends!"
"Comfortable and confident!"
"Excited to be able to speak out about my opinions and to listen to the opinions of others and it made me find out who I really was and my worth!"
"Thank you for the best time of my life. Can I come back next year."